Upgrading Subversion Repositories using dump / load
Subversion 1.5 has been out for a while now, and has some nice new features so in this post I’ll describe a nice reliable and safe method of upgrading your repositories.
Experience has shown me that the best method is to use the command line tools, specifically svnadmin.
> svnadmin dump oldrepo > oldrepo.txt
The command ’svnadmin dump’ creates a plain text file of all your revision. Included in this is a hash of each revision to
Subversion Presentation - GeekUp Leeds
I’ve always enjoyed going to GeekUp in Leeds, and next week its my turn to present. I’ll be doing a 20:20 on ‘Subversion -Why source control management will save your life‘. With three days to go I’m still writing the slides. But there is no getting out of it now, so better get back to work.
Hopefully the audience will be gentle.